Button-locating and shoe-fly-cutting machine



(No ModeL) T. E, KEMY. BUTTON LDGATING AND SHOE FLYG'VIYIINQ MAG-EINE.

No. 356,718.. Patented Jan. 25, 1887t W M5353 .f

Unire drains 'l Arena trice.

THOMAS E. KEAVY, OF KENT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AKRON LOGATING MACHINE COMPANY, OF AKRON, OHIO.

BUTTON-LOCTING AND SHOE=FLY=CUTTlNG MACHINE.

QECIFICAJIQIN forming part o Letters Patent Nc. 356,718, dated January 25, 1887.

Application filed September 18, 1856. Serial Xo. 213,874. (No modem To @ZZ whomit may concern: for one end of the fly. This gage slides on 5o Be it known that I, THOMAS E. HEAVY, a studsi t', connected with a movable plate, L, citizen of the United States, residing at lKent, and is connected by a link, I, with a graduiu the county of Portage and State of Ohio, ated bar, J, which slides in. ways j j, and is have invented a new and useful Improvement locked by a thumb-screw, c.

in Gages for Button-Locating and Shoe-Fly- The movable plateLslides freely on the bed 55 Cutting Machines, of which the following is a A, and is connected with the pivoted lever M,

specification. the front end of which rests on the graduated My invention has relation to improvements slotted segment N, and is locked at any7 point lo in gages for that class of bnttonlocaiing and therein by the thumb-screw a.

lycutting machines in which an adjustable It has not been deemed necessary to show 6o tapering cutt-ingtable supports the material the marking or cutting tools, their manner of fortlie action of the marking and cutting inadjustment to different sizes, styles, or shapes, struinents. as they are fullyl described in my application I5 The object of my invention is to provide defor a patent for an improvement in buttonvices whereby said table and gages may be locating and shoe-iiy-cutting machines nonr 65 rapidly adjusted to any shape or size of y. pending in the United States Patent Office,

It consists in the devices illustrated in the Serial No. 192,791, and their operation is obnccoinpanying drawings, as hereinafter deviens, their general location being the dotted 2o scribed and claimed. scalloped line in Fig. l.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is In operation, the marking or cutting tools 7o a plan, and Figs. 2 and 3 right and`left elevabeing adjusted to the desired size the table B tions, respectively, of the bed, tapering plate, is moved to a position which will present the and gages. proper width to the cutting or iinarliing tools,

2 5 Thebed fr, haring a plane lace at right anwhich position is determined by suitable nurngles to the motion of the cutting and marking bers on the graduated scales D and E. The 7 5 tools, .is attached to the frame of the machine gages F and K are similarly located by means and supports the tapering table B and gages of tbe graduated bars H and J and segment used therewith. The tapering table B rests on N. By this arrangement, the numbers on each 3o the bed A, and at its narrow end is pivoted on gage for any desiredstyle, size, or shape being a stud, c, which slides in a slot, e, a prutoi1 once ascertained and tabulated, the machine 8o which is in the bed A and is extended beyond can be, even by an inexperienced person, rapit by the iron C. Attached to the front of the idly adjusted by reference to the gages only. table B is a slotted segmental graduated plate, I claim- 35 D, which slides on and is held by a tbunibl. In a machine for locating buttons and screw, d, which moves in the slotted graducutting shoe-flies, the combination, with the 85 ated plate and may be locked at any point. tapering table having its narrow end arranged The ily to be. cut or marked is placed on the to slide in a slot in the bed A, of the graduated table B, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. l, gages D E, provided with a locking device fio and its position regulated by the gages F and such substantially as shown, all constructed K. The gage F consists of a slotted strip of and arranged substantially as shown, and for go metal sliding on studs f f, connected With the the purpose specified. bed A, its front bent to project above and over 2. In a machine for locating buttons and the table B, and connected at its other end by cutting button-dies, the combination, with the .t5 the lint: G with the graduated bar II, which tapering table B, of the gages F K, and deslides in the Ways g g, and is locked by the vices, such substantially as shown, for moving g5 thumb-seres' la.. The gage K bears at its front and retaining them, all constructed and arend two upwardly-projecting points, k lo, or ranged substantially as shown, and for the other analogous device, which constitute a rest purpose specied.

3. The combination, with the bed A, ofthe have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of* tapering table B, provided with graduated September, A. D. 1856. gages D E, and the gages F K each provided. l, with graduated scales by Whch each part is THOMAS E KEAVY 5 located, all constructed and arranged substau- Witnesses:

tially as shown, and for the purpose speeed. SAMUEL S.MARSH, In testimony that I' Claim the foregoing I L. WV. TURNER. 

